Connecticut Lottery officials urge ‘check your tickets’ as expirations near

Two Connecticut lottery summons holders could spot their fiscal woes each washed distant — but lone if they assertion their winnings adjacent month.

A winning $25,000 a Year for Life ticket, bought April 19 astatine a New Milford Stop & Shop, volition expire Oct. 16, according to Connecticut Lottery officials. The winning numbers were 5, 8, 24, 28, 34, and the Lucky Ball fig was 5.

The different prize is simply a $100,000 Cash5 ticket that’s lone bully until Oct. 22. That 1 was sold astatine Burnside Smoke Shop and Convenience store successful East Hartford, with the winning numbers 1, 4, 14, 16 and 29.

“Check your tickets!” the Connecticut Lottery blared connected its societal media accounts astir the two prizes.

There are three lesser unclaimed prizes arsenic well, CT Insider reported. One expires Dec. 10 — a Fast Play $5 Moneybags Progressive that’s worthy $355,829 — and the different 2 successful February 2025. They are some Cash5 winners, 1 for $100,000 that was drawn Aug. 13 and expires Feb. 9, 2025, and the different worthy $79,280, expiring Feb. 27.

Connecticut instrumentality stipulates that draw crippled and Fast Play winnings indispensable beryllium claimed 180 calendar days from the day the summons was drawn oregon purchased, respectively.

The conflict is existent nationwide. Million-dollar payoffs languished for months successful respective states successful 2023, NBC News reported. Over the past 5 to 10 years, an mean of $40 cardinal to $50 cardinal has gone unclaimed annually, California Lottery manager Carolyn Becker told NBC News past February.

“Millions of dollars successful California Lottery prize wealth go unclaimed each year — thing I don’t deliberation a batch of radical realize,” Becker told the web successful 2023. “I fishy astir of those prizes are for radical who ne'er knew they’d won. Maybe they forgot to cheque their ticket, oregon misplaced it, and ne'er saw the result of the draw.”